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Whose Woods Are These? I Think I Know!

Some fundamentalists don’t seem to have the fundamentals written on the
tablets of their hearts! When it comes to acknowledging the capabilities of
the creation and every creature, many are either ignorant of what God says
about the creation or they simply don’t care. When men don’t care about
God’s input, they are rejecting God Himself.

One internationally known evangelist said recently, about earth’s
forests, “God made all the wood for man to cut. It is ours. All of it!”
Adding, as if trying to erase any remaining sympathy in part of his audience
towards the green movement, which he condemned, he chuckled out loud
sarcastically.

The New Testament teaches that, “All scripture is given by inspiration of
God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof and correction and
instruction in righteousness.” (2Timothy 3:16) Scriptures are not presented
for our debate: they are God-given for our learning and admonition to create
right thinking and right action! God’s word says, “If they do not speak
according to my word it is because there is no light (revelation) in them.”
Don’t you want to know what your Heavenly Father has spoken? If you are
double-minded, you won’t receive anything from the Lord, but if your eye is
single for God’s word, your whole body will be filled with light. You won’t
just see fragmented unrelated pieces of truth. Deciding which scriptures are
important and worthy of your attention will allow the bottomless pits of
ignorance to deprive you of comprehending the Heavenly Vision. Keep in mind
we are called to be the ambassadors of Christ and the Kingdom of Heaven. God
only has one eternal purpose, one intention of His calling (Ephesians 3:11 &
4:4-5), and we all need to be functioning from the core of this purpose and
speaking in accordance with that heavenly vision. Before that all congeals
in your heart and mind you need to receive some of the divinely inspired
“puzzle pieces” and look at the implications of those scriptures. Let’s just
open the blinds to a very brief peek at some of those scriptures.

Jesus said
the stones are able to cry out praises to the Messiah. Think of that…the
stones can praise our Lord! It is now documented that certain plant
communities invaded by a specific insect or disease can communicate quite a
distance to other plants in their community and instruct them to all begin
producing a precise chemical to repel their enemies. Science is now
discovering much in these areas.

In Psalms 148, the trees are told to praise Him and in Isaiah 55:12 we
are informed, “All the trees of the field shall clap their hands.” Psalms
96:12 says, “Let the field and all its bio-diversity be filled with joy,
then shall all the trees of the forest rejoice.” The Bible also tells us
that the wilderness can mourn. If the wilderness can mourn, and trees can
praise our God, applaud and rejoice, must we not ask ourselves just what are
we dealing with here? I say we can no longer look at a tree as an unfeeling
and insensitive inanimate object. If that were so, God would not say that
when the antichrist is put down no lumber man will come up against the
forests.

All the creatures of the forest belong…not to the Game Commission, but to
the Lord. Birds, even turkeys, cry unto the Lord and He feeds them. If you
ever witness a flock of wild turkeys trudging single file like a noble but
lost band of soldiers through the frozen forest you will recognize why
Benjamin Franklin wanted to make them our national bird.

The scripture says that all things were made by Jesus Christ and through
Him and for Him. It is for Christ’s pleasure that all things are and were
created, and not as the evangelist at the beginning of this article
insisted, just for human utilitarian purposes or blood sport!

Men who only measure a tree by its cord of firewood or its board feet of
lumber will no doubt have a quarrel with me saying he sees the tears of the
groaning wilderness or hears the applause of a forest or notices the delight
of a great tree standing before its Creator. But their quarrel is with the
Word of God that abides forever and with their Creator, not with me!

I recently heard on one ministers program, whose ministry is attaching a
tremendous following: “The church has been remiss in supporting the
environmental movement, but those days are over. From now on the Body of
Christ will take the leadership in supporting this move of God and learning
from those environmental leaders to whom we previously did not give our
attention.” I will write more about this soon, God willing and I live. I
have great concern that this transition to “environmentalism” within the
church may fly under the banner of mere “Conservation.” Stripping the
eco-system for the objective of supplying building materials is a far cry
and a poor substitute for the singular eternal purpose of Almighty God! The
creation God wants to spread from Death Valley to the distant stars is an
Eden that spontaneously stimulates spiritual worship and praise to the one
who sits on the throne.

Some time ago I learned of a senator who apparently had never heard of
the prophet Noah who was commanded to keep alive every species upon the face
of the earth. If God is no longer interested in protecting every species, He
will have to apologize to Noah! Perhaps he had also never read, “That God
should ruin all those who ruin the earth.” Rev.11:18. This senator wanted to
clear cut 3,000 acres which would be repeatedly sprayed with toxic chemicals
and afterwards planted to a single commercial species in our national
forest. This action is repeated over and over again while many conservatives
support it. Pennsylvania’s Allegheny National Forest belongs to the Nation
and the Nation wants to experience some wilderness solitude. They long for
some forests that remain untouched and unspoiled.

On the other hand, the senator would have it be a project demonstrating
once and for all that you can successfully destroy the many species that
occupy a great forest and still get a harvest from one single commercial
hybrid species. We all knew that. We know you can kill just about everything
and still figure a way to squeeze a buck out of it!

Perhaps you don’t care that God is listening. And the senator may not
care that God’s eyes are looking to and fro through all the earth to show
Himself strong on behalf of those whose hearts are perfect towards Him, but
many of you conservatives support the senators actions that contradict the
scripture and the intention of God Almighty. Do you have any understanding
about why God is allowing this world, right now, to be shaken? God knows
exactly why there’s a whole lot of shaking going on and why there will be
much more.

To you I must say I am not condemning you because I know you do these
things because you didn’t know that animals talk to God or that they are
seated in heavenly places with him. Neither did you know that the forests
praise Him, but now you do. And if you look a little more deeply you might
discover that trees appreciate a good hug as much as you might. If they can
clap their hands and lift their praises to their Creator, they obviously
must have feelings too. Tell me this as you are contemplating how many
remaining patches of old growth forests you can export and how wealthy you
can become from doing so: why does the scripture say that at Christ’s
return, all the earth is quiet and at rest? (Sounds like, pardon the pun,
you won’t hear any chain saws or logging trucks, derrick signals or dozers
cutting their way into wilderness.)

I know whose woods these are and He will soon be taking them back because
we have exercised our fallen dominion and not the abad and shamar of a
redeemed and restored people. (See Rev.10) You can hear chain saws and log
trucks all around our National Forests and across our nation, but more
Americans than not would prefer to hear an intact forest filled with happy
creatures and a forest that is still singing!